Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-12

Ice-General News.
Special Correspondence The Register.
BEVERLY, W. Va, January 10.-Cir-
cult Court convened here last Monday with
Judge w. T. Ice on the bench. The grand
jury brought in thirty-six indictments,
nearly all being misdemeanors. Most OF.
the business transacted at this term was
chancery cases. The docket has been
cleared Of nearly all the criminal cases.
Court was only in session five days and adj
jOurned to-day, which was the shortest
term of the Circuit Court that has been
held here for number of years. One
case that developed Mt this term was
divorce suit OF Mrs. Hinkle against her
husband, Bernard Hinkle.
A very thrilling adventure occu rred on
the Valley River, six miles below here, a
few days ago, which makes quite Il heroine
out of one of the participants. Mr.. James
Scott was crossing the river in a boat
with four of Mr.. Hangers children.
the river was heavy with large cakes Office
and "A short distance below where they
were crossing was damned up with ice.
After proceeding n short distance the ice
lodged against the boat and soon swamped
it, precipItating its occupants into the wa
ter. Mr.. Scott seized the smallest child
md threw it towards the shore as far as he
| could, which lodged on q cake of soft ice
| md sank it partly below the surface. The
other three children grabbed Mr.. Scott
around the neck and arms for dear life.
Miss Alice Scott being on the opposite side
| from which the boat started with her faith
! er and the children, hearing their cry for
| help, rushed to the bank of the stream and
II the risk of her own life, plunged in and
waded out towards her father and the
struggling children. But the river was too
deep for her to reach them. She waded out
| until the water ran up TO her neck and
then hallowed to her father to throw the
children to her and she would catch them
and carry them to the shore, which was
safely done. She then turned to look for
the fourth child, and found it on the cake
| IF ice partly immersed. When she reached
| it the face of the little one was partly
immersed in the water, and in a pathetic
voice she exclaimed, "Oh save me- Mis-
Scott soon rescued her from her perilOus
position, and they were all taken to Mr..
SCOTS house, where dry apparel was pro-
yided tor them and the chill hSpelled by
| the warmth of q glowing log ii re. Miss
/ Alice is an eStimable young lady, brave
and courageous, whose only thought was
TO save the perishing little ones and her
father. Such deeds of heroism should not
20 unrecorded. 1t WAS real thrilling, as
she described the adventure to your cor
| respondent.
The weather has been extremely cold
| the last few days, the thermometer regis
tering Il and Is degrees below zero, which
has made skating on the river and ponds
excellent.
Some people say that it does not pay to
raise sheep in our mountain counties, but
last fall has demonstrated that it does pay
and pay better than any other stock in
proportion to the capital invested. There
were shipped from the counties of Ran
dolph, Webster, Pocahontas and Green
brier counties %, 600 head of sheep, which
distributed through those counties up
wards of $50, 600, which is no inconsistent
BILE sum for sheep alone.
A couple of peddlers came TO town yes
terday before the grand jury had oeen
discharged and commenced to sell their
wares. They had not sold more than
three or four cotton handkerchiefs before
they were indicted for selling without
license and paid into the eXchequer of the
State therefore about SIS. II the same
energy was displayed by the proper au-
thorities in breaking up the gambling dens
and illegal whisky shops the moral people
would applaud the act.
Mr.. Charles Buckery, the enterprising
teamster, has established q line OF air
tight omnibuses on the road from Beverly
to Hhilippi, and is meeting with great
deal of success.
Mr.. W. Scott Pierce, who was killed in
the recent horrible collision on the b. and
o., near Tifin, O., spent one summer In
this section as . deputy collector OF inter
nal revenue, and made host of friends by
his gentlemanly bearing and department
while here.
The Court house caught fire early this
morning before Court convened from the
boxing through which the pipe passes to
the lue, but it was discovered by Jaiier
Conrad before it had made much head
way and was soon extinguished with
few buckets of water. Beverly has had
several incipient fires lately, and from the
careless manner in which hues are con-
strueted it is a wonder that the town has
not been destroyed.
Randolph, and particularly Beverly, Will
be we'll represented at Charleston at the
assembling of the State solons- Most OF
them will stay until after the contest for
Senator is ended.
! Randolph only has one candidate for
] position in the Legislature, and that Is Dir.
II. L. Chenowith, who is an applicant for
n committee elerkship.
If the House Will elect our friend Joe
Woods, of Wheeling, as Speaker, and that
sterling Democrat, G. w. Tppetts, OF Pit
Pleasant, Sergeant-at-Arms OF the House,
the Democrats Of Randolph will be salts
6ad with their choice